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Football has already been transformed by big money – but the businessmen behind Man City are trying to build a global corporation that will change the game for ever. By Giles Tremlett<p>On 19 December 2009, Pep Guardiola stood and wept in the middle of Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi. The …

In the future, some transportation experts say, vehicles will no longer be individually owned. They envision a world of “fractional” ownership, in which autonomously driven taxis, operated by government or private entities, shuffle commuters around based on algorithmically optimized routes that …

In today’s sports, the difference between winning and losing, success and failure, is small.<p>Football is said to be “a game of inches.” In baseball a player has “less than the blink of an eye” to hit the ball.<p>The bar is constantly being raised as athletes build upon the foundation that the prior …

To identify business connections across cities, researchers gathered tweets and retweets using the hashtags #smallbiz and #entrepreneur.<p>Entrepreneurship may be key to a city’s economic success, but it’s very hard to get useful data about it. If you look only at rates of business formation, you’ll …

Not on their own, at least. To address the ever-more-complex problems afflicting cities, we’ll need a regional approach.<p>Richard Florida’s book <i>The New Urban Crisis</i> contains a number of important truths about the challenges facing America’s metropolitan areas. Chief among them is the recognition that …

As the smart city movement grows around the world, a new study sees Asia emerging as the global smart city leader of the future.<p>A recent Government Technology white paper “Evolution of Smart Cities and Connected Communities.” The study was co-sponsored by the Consumer Technology Association and the …

Google has long stated its ambitions to run its global operations solely on renewable energy, and now it wants to lead by example. The company has updated its interactive Sunroof map that helps people estimate whether it makes sense to install a solar panel on their roof.<p>In a new blog post, the Big …

Spin, just launched in Austin, does away with the traditional model where you can only leave your bike at a station that might not be anywhere near your destination.<p>When a new bike share startup called Spin studied a year of use of Bay Area Bike Share, the numbers were surprisingly low: On an …

While a dizzying array of connected gadgetry is vying for room on city leaders’ wish lists, industry experts advise less focus on the technology itself and more on industry partnerships that can build out smart cities.<p>At the recent U.S. Conference of Mayors held in Washington, D.C., Joanne Hovis, …

‘A living laboratory for urban technology’<p>For months, it was rumored that Sidewalk Labs, the Google spinoff focused on smart city solutions, wanted to build its own city-within-a-city to trial self-driving cars, public Wi-Fi, new health care solutions, and other city planning advances that modern …

In late 2016, Madrid's Mayor Manuela Carmena reiterated her plan to kick personal cars out of the city center.<p>On Spanish radio network Cadena Ser, she confirmed that Madrid's main avenue, the Gran Vía, will only allow access to bikes, buses, and taxis before she leaves office in May 2019. It's part …

Many industries are realizing that sportstech breakthroughs and innovations can often be transferable. Augmented reality, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, big data and IoT are suddenly on the front burner for most industries, large and small; global and local.<p>Digital medicine is poised to …